Yarn-protector and traveler-clearer for ring-spinning frames



(NoModeL) J. W. WATTLES.

Yarn Protector and Traveler Clearer for Ring Spinning Frames. No. 233,650. Patented Oct. 26, 1880.

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JOSEPH WV. WATTLES, OF CANTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

YARN-PROTECTOR AND TRAVELER-CLEARER FOR RING-SPINNING FRAMES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 233,650, dated October 26, 1880.

Application filed March 29, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH W. WAT'ILES, of Canton, of the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Yarn-Protectors and Traveler-Olearers for Ring-Spinning Frames, such being not only for clearing the travelers of the rings of fibrous collections while such travelers may be in operation, but for protecting the yarns proceeding to the bobbins of the spindles from striking against or coming in contact with each other while bowed out, as they usually are when the spindles are at a high degree of speed.

In case of the yarns being thrown against each other they are liable to become broken or injured in their passage from the guides to the travelers.

My invention is fully described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which Figure 1 is a top view, Fig. 2 a front elevation, and Fig. 3 a longitudinal section, of a spinning-frame ring-rail and two of its rings and their spindles and spindle supporting rails with my improvement applied to the ring and bolster rails.

On March 17th, 1868, Letters Patent No. 75,609 were granted to me for an invention for clearing of fibrous collections the travelers of ring-spinning frames, such invention consistin g in a toothed wheel or disk arranged between two of the rings and mounted on ashort spindle or shaft extending down through the ring-rail and sliding freely therein, such shaft having a length such as when it and the ring-rail were down upon the bolster-rail would cause the toothed disk to be level, or substantially so, with the races of the rings, whereby, at the times when the ring-rail was at or about at its lowest depression and the travelers were revolving on their races, such toothed disk would intercept fibrous filaments or matters projecting from the travelers and separate them therefrom.

My present invention is closely analogous to that above mentioned, and differs from it, inasmuch as I make use of a plain disk Without teeth, and I construct the supportingshank of said disk long enough to cause, when the ring-rail is at its lowest position, the disk to extend up between the spindles sufficiently to prevent the yarns proceeding from the guides to the travelers from coming in contact with each other, provided the disk be of sufficient diameter. The travelers during the rise of the ring-rail, being carried to the level of the disk, will be cleared by the disk of fibrous accumulations.

With my present improvement the disk at operates in no respect to clear the travelers of fibrous matters when the ring-rail is at its lowest position, for at such time the disk at stands at an altitude above the rings and travelers, to enable such disk to accomplish another purpose-viz., that of preventing the next adjacent yarns from coming in contact wit-h each other.

The disk a may be of a diameter to prevent the yarns from contact with each other, and still not be large enough to clear the travelers while on or about on a level with them; but I prefer to make such disk of sufficient diameter to admit of it accomplishing both such operations.

In the drawings, A denotes the bolster-rail; B, the ring-rail; O, the step-rail; D D, the two spindles; E E, their rings, and F F the travelers thereof, all beingarranged in the ordinary manner common to spinning-frames provided with bolster and step-supporting rails. G is the traveler-clearer and yarn-protector, consisting of the plain disk a and its supporting spindle or rod 1), the latter going loosely through a hole, 0, in the ring-rail, and resting upon the bolster- 8 5 rail, or that rail which is'immediately or next below the ring-rail.

The rod b is of a length to cause the disk, when the ring-rail is down, to stand at an altitude sufficient to prevent the yarns passing to the two next adjacent travelers from coming into contact while the travelers and spindles may be in rapid revolution.

From the above it will be seen that the post b rests upon the bolster-rail A until the ringrail 13 may rise upward to the disk to, after which, and during the further rise of the ringrail, the traveler-clearer and yarn-protector G will be moved upward with and by the said rail. In the descent of the rail the post will 100 go down with it until the foot of the post may meet the bolster-rail. The post will, next remain at rest durin g the further descent of the ring-rail and the succeeding rise of the ringrail up to the disk a.

The improvement enables lighter travelers, comparatively speaking, to be used, which is highly important for high speed of the spindles.

What I claim as my invention is 1. In combination with the ring-rail and the bolster-rail, the yarn-protector, essentially as described, consisting of the disk to and its supporting-post 1), adapted to the ring-rail as explained, to operate with it and the bolsterrail and with the yarns in manner as set forth,

to prevent contact of such yarns under circumstances as specified.

2. In combination with the ring-rail and the bolster-rail, the yarn-protector and traveler-clearer, substantially as described, consist ing of the disk to and the supporting-post b, constructed and adapted to the ring-rail as explained, to operate with it and the bolsterrail and with the yarns and travelers in manner as specified, to effect clearing of the travelers and prevent contact of the yarns under circumstances as set forth.

JOSEPH WV. WATTLES. Witnesses:

RPH. EDDY, S. N. PIPER. 

